From 2a1683a007e6371e605a1cfb5122a994f418138b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:04:15 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] spec change for redeclaration

R=iant,gri
DELTA=14  (14 added, 0 deleted, 0 changed)
OCL=27615
CL=27618
---
 doc/go_spec.html | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/go_spec.html b/doc/go_spec.html
index c62a168b1f6..486813878bf 100644
--- a/doc/go_spec.html
+++ b/doc/go_spec.html
@@ -1674,6 +1674,20 @@ variables will be assigned the corresponding values.
 r, w := os.Pipe(fd);  // os.Pipe() returns two values
 </pre>
 
+<p>
+A short variable declaration may redeclare variables provided they
+were originally declared in the same block with the same type, and at
+least one of the variables is new.  As a consequence, redeclaration
+can only appear in a multi-variable short declaration.
+Redeclaration does not introduce a new
+variable; it just assigns a new value to the original.
+</p>
+
+<pre>
+field1, offset := nextField(str, 0);
+field2, offset := nextField(str, offset);  // redeclares offset
+</pre>
+
 <p>
 Short variable declarations may appear only inside functions.
 In some contexts such as the initializers for <code>if</code>,